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Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

Quote by Robert Patterson about beginning, time

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification, such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

Quote by James Payn about disaster, mistake, rules, need, good, good luck, man

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about heads, wife, things

I met Robert Crumb in 1962, he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about opinion, artists, writers

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about man, common sense, people

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about events, things, people

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about writers, sun, day

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about work

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about history, concentration, war, world, contentment

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

Quote by Sean Penn about film, contentment

Always speak the truth, think before you speak and write it down afterwards.

Quote by Lewis Carroll about truth, contentment

I write for the same reason I breathe because if I didn't, I would die.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about opinion, reason, death

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about science, disaster, writers, fiction, problems

Why did I write, because I found life unsatisfactory.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, life

I am not a scholar, I've never learnt to write, but only to read from your palms.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about word

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, silence, books, being

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, poets, things

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, time, artists

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Quote by Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov about literature, drinking

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Quote by Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov about literature, children, contentment